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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m a type 1 diabetic, I’ve been using insulin pumps and CGM for over a decade. I am in no way defending pump manufacturers but A, this is not “basic medical care”, pump/CGM systems (closed loop as they are called) capable of maintaining blood sugar levels are the latest and greatest tech for insulin dependent diabetics. B, it’s not like they are creating something that doesn’t already exist, they are just making open source alternatives, which I heartily support.

    I just don’t like how you are making it sound like “Welp the medical community doesn’t want to make them so people had to step up and do it themselves!”

    These things have been around a few years now and while I could fill a book with complaints about the design choices of the hardware we rely on I gotta say the algorithms that the software uses is very far down on the list of issues.